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Does holding in smoke make you higher ?

As I'm sure many people have heard 'Holding in smoke makes you notably higher' whether this be a joint, pipe or a bong its all supposed to make you higher.
Research has showed that holding in the smoke does not make you higher, it just hurts your lungs and leads to more harmful chemicals being absorbed than normally breathing.

I've heard that 95%\tif the thc is absorbed within three seconds. Any more than that and you are just letting ash settle in your lungs. Smoking for six years strong and I'd have to say that's pretty accurate.

Doesn't even need to be held in tbh, I hit the bong, take a quick inhale of fresh air as I pull away from clearing it, shut my mouth, open it and exhale. Works every time and stresses my lungs way less.

I always think people look like fucking tools trying to ghost hits and shit. So pointless.

"Typical marijuana effects (increased heart rate, increased ratings of "high" and impaired memory performance) were observed under each of the breathhold conditions, but there was little evidence that response to marijuana was a function of breathhold duration."

"The results confirm previous findings that prolonged breathholding does not substantially enhance the effects of inhaled marijuana smoke."

Nor does "clamping down" make the THC enter your system any faster, and it can be dangerous!

â€œUsual" cannabis abuse producing an unusual incident (abst â€“ 2007)
(The "Valsalva maneuver" is performed by attempting to forcibly exhale while keeping the mouth and nose closed. Don't do it!) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17342632
\nCASE HISTORY:"A 17-year-old male presented in an agitated, deranged state with rapidly increasing swelling of the neck. Except for regular abuse of cannabis there was no medical history of note. He had a sinus tachycardia (130 bpm), a slow pupillary reflex, bilateral hyposphagma and subcutaneous emphysema around the neck and shoulders.INVESTIGATIONS AND DIAGNOSIS:Laboratory tests showed elevated inflammatory markers. The chest X-ray demonstrated a bilateral pneumothorax and large subcutaneous emphysema. Subsequent computed tomography of neck and thorax showed an extensive pneumomediastinum and the described subcutaneous emphysema. There was no evidence of a ruptured trachea or esophageal perforation. The underlying cause was presumed to have been a Valsalva maneuver during marijuana smoking."